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LinkSquares benefits from the legal tech boom with a fresh $100M

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Demonstrating that there’s a robust market for contract management solutions, LinkSquares , a company developing intelligent software that helps brands maintain and ink new contracts, today announced that it raised $100 million in Series C financing led by G Squared. million at an $800 million valuation. Image Credits: LinkSquares.

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Weights & Biases raises $135M Series C to keep building MLOps software

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According to Carta data , data and analytics-focused Series C rounds since the start of 2020 have median values of $43.75 According to Weights & Biases co-founder Lukas Biewald , the software world has a set of tools built for developers to write and deploy code well. This could include a git-style service ( GitLab , GitHub , etc.),

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

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The 1990s: Founding myth 1990: Mike Lynch, an academic in Cambridge, England, borrows—or so the legend goes—£2,000 to start Cambridge Neurodynamics, going on to develop the software that would later give rise to Autonomy. Lynch’s lawyers will later claim that HP executives spent just six hours in conference calls with his team.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Growth budgets, hiring tips, zero-party data Twitter Space

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The CTO can always boast how many tickets their team has closed and the release dates they’ve met, but a growth manager’s key performance metrics may not manifest for weeks — or months. Faster deals, less diligence: The African startup market mirrors its larger rivals. Lindsay Goldman, strategic advisor, MO Pros.

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Attending Oracle’s CodeOne? Here Are 15 Sessions Everyone Will Be Talking About

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Venkat Subramaniam , President, Agile Developer, Inc. No matter how quickly or slowly code moves through development or how diligent your testing is, some issues will only surface in production when real data is involved. Venkat Subramaniam , President, Agile Developer, Inc. Data is what brings teams together.

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6 African women CEOs discuss how they raised more than $1M in 2021

TechCrunch

But according to data from PitchBook, less than 2% of VC funding went to all-women-founded teams in 2021. On the bright side, founding teams counting both women and men as members raised 17% of VC investments in Africa in 2021. However, male-led companies get valued more because of vanity metrics and overall biases that exist.

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The Sobering Truth About the Impact of Your Business Ideas

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It’s not uncommon for 70-90% of ideas to either have no impact at all or actually move the metrics in the opposite direction of what was intended. of their ideas fail to generate positive results (Thomke, 2020). Travel site Booking.com shared that 9 out of 10 of their ideas fail to improve metrics (Thomke, 2020).